Philip Madoc
Also Known As: Phillip Madoc
Biography: Philip Madoc was a Welsh actor. He performed many stage, television, radio and film roles. On television, he played David Lloyd George in The Life and Times of David Lloyd George and the lead role in the detective series A Mind to Kill
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Twynyrodyn, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
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Birthday: July 05, 1934
Age: 90 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 05, 2012
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The Assassination Bureau
Overview: In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization that kills for justice. When its motives are called into question, she commissions the assassination of its chairman. Knowing that his colleagues have recently become more motivated by greed than morality, he turns the situation into a challenge for his board members: kill him or be killed.
Genres: Comedy Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-09
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Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde
Overview: In foggy London Dr Jekyll experiments on newly deceased women determined to discover an elixir for immortal life. Success enables his spectacular transformation into the beautiful but psychotic Sister Hyde who stalks the dark alleys of Whitechapel for young, innocent, female victims, ensuring continuation of the bloodstained research. With each transformation Sister Hyde becomes the more dominant personality, determined to eventually suppress the frail, ineffectual Dr Jekyll forever.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-17
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Macbeth
Overview: William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-15
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Ding Dong
Overview: An eccentric vicar comes up with an unusual solution for a wedding facing disaster. But the bridesmaid has a plan to save the day - if she can get him to the church on time ...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Doppelgänger
Overview: A planet is discovered in the same orbit as Earth's but is located on the exact opposite side of the sun, making it not visible from Earth. The European Space Exploration Council decide to send American astronaut Glenn Ross and British scientist John Kane via spaceship to explore the other planet.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-27
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Berserk!
Overview: A lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-01
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Alien Attack
Overview: Earth's Moon is the site of Moonbase Alpha, a scientific research colony nestled in the crater Plato. Staffed by over 300 men and women from Earth, it is the operations center for several space expeditions. It is also a watchdog for vast amounts of atomic waste from Earth stored in silos on the Moon's far side. Magnetic radiation builds up and causes the wastes to explode with such force that the Earth's centripetal pull on the Moon is overcome, and the Moon is broken free of Earth's orbit to drift at incredible speed out of the Solar System off the plane of the ecliptic. The survivors on Moonbase Alpha are unable to return to Earth and must survive in unknown space on their wandering Moon. They encounter a planet whose advanced people project an illusion of a devastating attack on Moonbase. This TV movie was edited from scenes of two episodes ("Breakaway" and "War Games") of "Space: 1999" (1975).
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-04
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Soft Beds, Hard Battles
Overview: In this comedy, set during the Nazi occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts, so he stars in nearly every scene, always bumbling in inspector Clouseau-style.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-24
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Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.
Overview: Doctor Who and his companions are hurled into the future and make a horrifying discovery: the Daleks have conquered Earth! The metal fiends have devastated entire continents and turned the survivors into Robomen.
Genres: Family Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-08-05
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The Quiller Memorandum
Overview: After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-10
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Hitler: The Comedy Years
Overview: A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-10
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The Dylan Thomas Trail
Overview: Dylan Thomas is perceived as one of the greatest poets working in the English language in the 20th century. He lived in London, and spent time in America, but chose his home in West Wales, in the village of Laugharne. This video trails all his most regular haunts, including his aunt's farm Fern Hill, and the village of Laugharne.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-29
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Otherworld
Overview: Whilst celebrating Lleu's 18th birthday, Lleu and two friends go for a boat ride, when they discover beneath the water the golden doorway to the Mabinogi (the Otherworld). They swim down and are transported back in time many centuries to the Mabinogi. There they encounter some problems with mediaeval life, and they have to deal with the conflict between fate personal choice and magic
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-26
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Hell Boats
Overview: A war drama of motor torpedo boats which did much unsung work in WW2, but the naval battles merely provide an exciting story in which an even more special romantic drama is wrapped up.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-20
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Zina
Overview: Zina, the daughter of Leon Trotsky by his first wife, is undergoing freudian analysis in Berlin in the 'thirties. Meanwhile Trotsky is in exile in Prinkipo having been driven from power by Stalin. The Nazis rise to power in Germany and Austria and Zina commits suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-01
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Overview: A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbé Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbé tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbé dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbé told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-04
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Wynne and Penkovsky
Overview: The true story of Greville Wynne, the British businessman who doubled as a spy on his trips to Russia, and Colonel Penkovsky, the high-ranking Soviet Intelligence officer who passed key information to the West.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-01
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Incinerate - With Coal
Overview: Glimpses of everyday life in 1970s Nottingham form the backdrop to this film about local refuse being converted into heating for new homes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Operation: Daybreak
Overview: Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-01
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Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll
Overview: The Doctor and Romana arrive on the marsh moon of Delta Magna in search of the next segment of the Key to Time. They are caught in the conflict between the native Swampies and the crew of a chemical refinery. The presence of a gun runner complicates matters; to make things worse, the Swampies intend to awaken Kroll, the giant god that lives beneath the swamps.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-13
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-05-10
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Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius
Overview: Mad scientist Mehendri Solon is building a body from spare parts to house the disembodied brain of the evil Time Lord Morbius. He fancies the Doctor's head as the final piece...
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-24
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The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
Overview: The Life and Times of David Lloyd George charts the life of the controversial Liberal politician with Philip Madoc in the titular role. The title theme, Chi Mai, was by Ennio Morricone
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-04
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A Mind To Kill
Overview: A young girl is found brutally murdered in a small seaside town. The police are baffled; the town's inhabitants are panic-stricken. A serial killer is on the loose, and as yet more horrific murders take place, the search for clues becomes a desperate race against time. A tense psychological thriller with a chilling climax, this television movie introduced the charismatic, dedicated Welsh detective Noel Bain (Philip Madoc), a man with a passion for defending the innocent and an infallible instinct which the sharpest criminal minds cannot match. Also starring Hywel Bennett as Doctor Lewis, the feature-length drama won a BAFTA Cymru award and initiated the highly acclaimed, darkly authentic crime series which ran between 1997 and 2004.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Operation Crossbow
Overview: Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.
Genres: Drama War Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-01
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First Born
Overview: Edward Forester is a genetic researcher, intent on breeding primate hybrids. But his experiments take a strange turn when he succeeds in breeding a human/gorilla hybrid. He hides the results of the experiment, adopting the child, and helps Gor to speak and blend into society. But Gor can't help being what he is, and tragedy and revelations are the ultimate result.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-30
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Nothing to Pay
Overview: A group of Welsh rugby union supporters leave their village for the first time to watch an away game in the city.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-02
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The Black Death
Overview: The Black Death, a pandemic disease that ravaged in the 1300s, caused a never-before-seen human catastrophe of frightening magnitude. Over the course of three terrible years, more than a third of Europe's population was wiped out.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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On the Fiddle
Overview: Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-10
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A High Wind in Jamaica
Overview: In 1870, a Jamaican colonial family sends its children to Britain for proper schooling, but their ship is taken over by pirates, who become fond of the kids.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-01
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Bequest to the Nation
Overview: Set before the Battle of Trafalgar, this is the story of relationship between Admiral Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton during the Napoleonic Wars.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-18
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Doctor Who: The War Games
Overview: The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrive on an unnamed planet. At first believing themselves in the midst of World War I, they realise it to be one of many War Zones overseen by the War Lords, who have kidnapped large numbers of human soldiers to form the greatest army the universe has ever seen. At the helm of this plot is the War Chief, another renegade Time Lord like the Doctor. The creeping realisation sets in that the Doctor cannot solve this problem alone, and that his days of wandering may be at an end...
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-21
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Doctor Who: The Krotons
Overview: The TARDIS arrives on the unnamed planet of the Gonds, who are ruled and taught in a form of self-perpetuating slavery by the alien Krotons — crystalline beings whose ship, the Dynatrope, crash-landed there thousands of years earlier after being damaged in a space battle. The Krotons are in suspended animation, in a crystalline slurry form, awaiting a time when they can be reconstituted by absorption of mental energy. Periodically, the two most brilliant Gond students are received into the Dynatrope, nominally to become "companions of the Krotons", but in truth to have their mental energy drained, after which they are killed.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-18
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The Spy Killer
Overview: Spy Killer stars Robert Horton as a secret agent turned private eye. Framed for murder, Horton is released, but only after promising that he'll track down a book containing a list of government agents who are operating covertly in Red China. The reluctant spy discovers that he can't completely trust anyone in this endeavor--not even his former chief
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-11
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The Button Man
Overview: ' Whatever you think of me doesn't change what you are. Rabble who've heard of socialism and think it's ten pints a night. Go on, vote me out ...'
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-09
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Hawk
Overview: The land holds many secrets, and one boy will learn them all. When Rowan is taken away from the civilized world, his lessons in the wild begin. Yet when he shatters the balance of nature, Rowan discovers another world beneath our own. In that shadowy land of old gods and wild hunts, the divide between man and beast becomes uncertain and the fairy-tales of his childhood spring to life. With only the guidance of a hunting hawk, Rowan must make amends for his crime against nature, and choose between what is real, and what is fantasy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-14
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Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
Overview: The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrive on an unnamed planet. At first believing themselves in the midst of World War I, they realise it to be one of many War Zones overseen by the War Lords, who have kidnapped large numbers of human soldiers to form the greatest army the universe has ever seen. At the helm of this plot is the War Chief, another renegade Time Lord like the Doctor. The creeping realisation sets in that the Doctor cannot solve this problem alone, and that his days of wandering may be at an end...
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-23
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Philip Madoc: A Villain for all Seasons
Overview: A retrospective of actor Philip Madoc's many roles as a Doctor Who villain.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-24
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